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New products and changes introduced over the last week include the reopening of two bond funds from Vanguard and the closing of its Capital Opportunity Fund; two low-volatility equity funds from MFS; and an emerging markets aggregate bond ETF from Market Vectors.
In addition, Abacus Group announced that it has expanded its application hosting services partnership network; AssetMark launched its business assessment tool; and DealVector announced its InvestorLink.
Here are the latest developments of interest to advisors:
1) Vanguard Reopens Two Funds, Closes Another, Adds Manager
Vanguard announced Monday that it has reopened the Vanguard High-Yield Corporate Fund (VWEHX), managed by Wellington Management Company LLP, and Vanguard Intermediate-Term Tax-Exempt Fund (VWITX), managed by Vanguard Fixed Income Group, effective immediately. At the same time, it said that it was closing the Vanguard Capital Opportunity Fund (VHCOX), managed by PRIMECAP Management Company, to most new accounts, also effective immediately. VWEHX had been closed in May 2012 and VWITX in February 2013, while VHCOX had just reopened to all retail investors in April of this year.
The firm also announced that the board of trustees of the Vanguard Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund (VWESX) has approved the addition of Vanguard Fixed Income Group to the fund's advisory team. Wellington Management Company will continue to serve as the lead advisor.
2) MFS Launches Two Low-Volatility Equity Funds
MFS has announced the launch of two low-volatility mutual funds, MFS Low Volatility Equity Fund (MLVAX) and MFS Low Volatility Global Equity Fund (MVGAX). The funds seek capital appreciation with reduced volatility relative to their respective benchmarks indices, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index and the MSCI All Country World Index, over a full market cycle. Each fund will invest in stocks that are attractive from both a fundamental and quantitative perspective and seeks to achieve lower levels of volatility than its benchmark through individual stock selection, the elimination of many of the most volatile stocks in their investment universes, and by using a disciplined portfolio construction process.
James Fallon and Matthew Krummell manage MLVAX, and Fallon is joined by Jonathan Sage on MVGAX. The funds are available for purchase in multiple share classes (A, B, C, I, R1–R5) through financial advisors, financial planners, broker/dealers and other financial intermediaries and retirement platforms.
3) Market Vectors Launches Emerging Markets Aggregate Bond ETF
Market Vectors ETFs announced Tuesday the launch of its Market Vectors Emerging Markets Aggregate Bond ETF (EMAG), which completes the conversion announced in October of the Market Vectors LatAm Aggregate Bond ETF (BONO) into this new fund.
EMAG seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Market Vectors EM Aggregate Bond Index (MVEMAG), which includes the four major categories of emerging markets bonds: U.S. dollar- and euro-denominated sovereigns; local currency sovereigns; U.S. dollar- and euro-denominated corporates; and local currency corporates. The index is also diversified across credit qualities and across currencies. The index is also diverse from a geographic perspective and continues to include Latin American debt as an important component, as well as debt from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.
4) Abacus Group Expands Application Hosting Services Partnership Network
Abacus Group LLC announced Monday the expansion of its application hosting service partnership network. The firm's partnership program provides hedge fund and private equity firms with access to fully hosted and managed business applications on the AbacusFLEX private cloud platform.
The increase in its application hosting service provides greater overall business and workflow efficiency to fund managers, with applications hosted in the private cloud offering better system resiliency, redundancy and data backup capabilities, and support services are available from around-the-clock IT staff. AbacusFLEX offers integration with front-office trading applications and back-office reporting systems, and manages e-mail and files. It also incorporates a compliance feature that allows firms to meet the Dodd-Frank electronic message monitoring policy.
5) AssetMark Announces Business Assessment Tool
AssetMark, Inc. recently announced its new Business Assessment Tool, which is designed to help an advisory firm conduct an objective analysis of its business value and identify areas of growth and opportunity.
The business assessment begins by entering 10 key quantitative data points about the firm. The advisor chooses the appropriate time period for analysis and enters the firm's financials to establish a framework to measure continued success. The tool then focuses on the qualitative factors that can affect an advisory firm's performance and by extension the monetary value of the practice. Its proprietary value maximization indicators then provide a framework for self-assessment across four key areas of the advisor's business: Managing Your Practice; Marketing Your Business; Empowering Your Team; and Optimizing Your Operations. The total score, the value maximization index, estimates relative business risk, transferability, sustainability and growth potential.
6) DealVector Launches InvestorLink
DealVector announced Monday announced the launch of InvestorLink, designed to streamline communication in the structured credit markets. Created primarily for issuers, collateral managers and trustees, InvestorLink opens a direct communication channel between deal administrators and holders. InvestorLink's features include accelerated execution of amendments, waivers, consents and other voting events; improved liquidity and transparency; and differentiation for collateral managers as an investor-friendly provider of administrative services.
InvestorLink allows deal administrators, investors, lawyers and other affiliated parties to create asset-specific microsites to communicate with holders about an upcoming event. That allows the author to describe the event and actions required, make pertinent documents available for download, and create a customized URL for distribution through DTCC, Euroclear, Clearstream or other channels. Visitors to the site can correspond with the site's author through an identity-protected communication channel. Issuers, collateral managers and trustees can also print InvestorLink URLs on monthly trustee reports, inviting holders to "follow" their deals and thereby receive direct notification on future events. Investors who follow a deal can communicate with each other as well as with the deal administrators, making it easier to source or sell their paper and enhancing deal liquidity.
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11 February 2013 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
The divestment is part of Eisai's new strategy to bring in efficiency in the system
Singapore: Eisai's Taiwan subsidiary Eisai Taiwan has entered into an agreement to divest its Tainan plant to Taiwanese pharmaceutical company Bora.
Since commencing operations in 1974, the Tainan plant has performed its role as a production base that serves emerging countries, particularly in Asia. In recent years, however, the environment surrounding the pharmaceutical industry has been undergoing rapid changes. In order to better and more accurately identify and respond to diversifying customer needs in the pharmaceutical industry, Eisai underwent a transformation in October 2012 that saw its existing production structure, which was based on manufacturing sites managed by region, shift to a globally integrated, unit-based structure organized by product family.
Based on a review conducted under the new production structure, which evaluated Eisai's global supply chain strategy in terms of efficiency and productivity, Eisai and Eisai Taiwan decided to divest the Tainan plant to Bora. Eisai Taiwan will now move ahead with the procedures necessary to complete the divestment based on local laws and regulations, with the divestment expected to be completed by September 2013.

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The history of visual art in Connecticut usually is traced to the first professional painter, William Johnston of Boston, who began working in the region around 1762.
But, as Susan P. Schoelwer notes in the introduction to a new scholarly catalog, "at least two decades earlier, … talented and skillful Connecticut women had begun creating pictures on canvas — assembling color, line and iconography into visual compositions intended for display."
The key words may be that they were women and that the pieces were meant to be decorative displays of their needlework skills. And though the works were handed down over the generations, they weren't considered objects of art until the rise of women's studies and fabric arts in the 1970s.
Because of their delicacy and sensitivity to light, needleworks done in the late 18th century and early 19th century rarely are seen. But two new exhibits that opened in the state this week show the wealth of creativity and craft in needlework of the era, depicing domestic surroundings, classical tableaus, family coats of arms, samplers, memorials and phrases to live by. Both shows feature many works never before publicly displayed.
"With Needle and Brush: Schoolgirl Embroidery from the Connecticut River Valley" at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme makes a case for specific approaches to stitching techniques by town and private school. Hartford, site of two major private girls' schools, The Royse School and the Misses Pattens' School, and Wethersfield, Norwich, South Hadley, Mass., and Deerfield each had its own distinctive style.
Schoolgirl work also is represented in "Connecticut Needlework: Women, Art and Family, 1740-1840," which opened this week at the Connecticut Historical Society, with 82 pieces representing 32 Connecticut towns, almost entirely drawn from the society's own collection. The exhibition also includes some spectacular examples of early bed rugs, samplers dating back to 1762, with notations that make them easy to trace ("Mary Bidwell is my name, English is my nation, Hartford is my dweling [sic] pl[ace], and Christ is my salvation") and most notably the work of Prudence Punderson Rossiter, who created remarkable scenes of allegory and life.
The Hartford exhibit also includes "Pictures of Twelve Apostles," in which the religious figures are all wearing contemporary (18th-century) clothes, most also accompanied by a descriptions of their lurid deaths (St. Simon "sawed in two alive"; St. James "beheaded at Jerusalem"; St. Philip "first cruficied, then stoned to death"; St. Thomas, "thrust through with a lance").
The tour de force is a tiny panel by Prudence Punderson Rossiter titled "The First, Second and Last Scene of Mortality" that not only reflected a woman's life in those days, but represents a whole allegory from cradle to coffin. The historical society has not only the work itself, which inspired a recent installation at the Brooklyn Museum, but also the table and mirror depicted in the piece, dated to 1758-84.
Life wasn't easy for the Pundersons. Loyalists, they had to flee to Long Island at one point, where threads and textiles were more difficult to obtain. But the family had a needlework tradition, seen in both a full floral family bed hanging made by Prudence's mother, Prudence Geer Punderson, and a sampler made by her sister, Hannah.
Names And Dates
Scholarship was made easier for historians, says historical society executive director Kate Steinway, not only by families who held onto heirlooms, but by women who often prominently signed and dated their works.
Even the bold floral bed rugs that begin the exhibit are marked with initials or prominently display names and dates.
Things are even more explicit in the samplers and especially the family registers, which mark the birth and death dates of families. Along these lines, embroidery of fancy memorials depicting gravestones under weeping willow trees and flanked by mourning family members became very popular.
John Trumbull may have been the most famous artist in the family of the state's first governor, with his famous official portraits of George Washington. But he was inspired by his older sister Faith Trumbull, whose pastoral scenes are part of the historical society show. "These wonders were hung in my mother's parlor and were among the first objects that caught my infant eye," John Trumbull is quoted as saying in the "Connecticut Needlework" catalog. "I endeavored to imitate them."
Faith Trumbull went to private schools to learn her craft, at a cost much greater than sending a male to boarding school. The girls' schools are celebrated in the show at the Griswold, itself once the sight of such a school.
Carol and Stephen Huber of Old Saybrook curated the Griswold show, which is notable not only in the quality of the works but the youth of the women who produced them. Buildings were depicted so faithfully one can tell they are of early Wethersfield, Norwich or Middletown, and the renderings of trees, flowers and birds display the depth of the girls' skills. Signatures tell of their precociousness, as one by Alice Mather of Lyme, who signs "her sampler made in the twelvth year of her age, July 8th, 1774."
Before reform in 1930 brought education to American girls, private schools were almost exclusively, except for music, dedicated to learning embroidery arts. The students' finished work was meant to show, with their classical themes and poetic quotes, that the young women were erudite and educated and thus very eligible for marriage.
The Griswold exhibit does a good job exacting the precise details that identify samplers by their region. Those with black backgrounds often reflect works made in Norwich; those with certain white doves identify a Deerfield origin.
Shared Scholarship
Although both exhibitions were planned separately, the two institutions have shared scholarship.
Schoelwer — the former director of museum collections at the historical society, who is now curator at George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens — curated the exhibit and authored "Connecticut Needlework: Women Art and Family, 1740-1840" (Connecticut Historical Society/Wesleyan University Press, $65 hardcover, $30 softcover). She also wrote an essay for the book the Griswold Museum will produce, "With Needle and Brush: Schoolgirl Embroidery from the Connecticut River Valley" ( Florence Griswold Museum/Wesleyan University Press, $45 and $30).
And the Hubers, who curated the Griswold Museum exhibit, are among the sponsors of the exhibit at Connecticut Historical Society.
Both museums also helped promote the other's exhibit, hoping to bring needlework aficionados from out of state to take in both shows. "We think of it as a plus," Steinway says.
"Connecticut Needlework: Women, Art and Family: 1740-1840" is on display at the Connecticut Historical Society, One Elizabeth St., Hartford, through March 26, 2011. Hours are Thursday through Friday noon to 5 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $6, $3 for seniors and students. In addition, the Connecticut Historical Society hosts a one-day conference on "Connecticut Needlework" Oct. 30 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Information: 860-236-5621 or http://www.chs.org.
"With Needle & Brush: Schoolgirl Embroidery from the Connecticut River Valley" continues at the Florence Griswold Museum, 96 Lyme St., Old Lyme, through Jan. 30, 2011. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is $9, $8 for seniors, $7 for students and free for 12 and younger. Information: 860-434-5542 or http://www.flogris.org.
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This is the time of year gardeners and local foods enthusiasts have a lot of extra fruits and vegetables on their hands, and no idea what to do with it all.
One option, of course, is canning some of it, but if you've never done that before and don't have any of the equipment, it can seem like a daunting task — and a little scary, because if you don't know what you're doing, there could be food safety issues.
I asked some canning experts for their advice for beginners. First of all, everyone agreed that if it's your first time, start with something simple, like a jam or a salsa.
"One of the easiest and most popular recipes for first-time canners are jams," said Jessica Piper, a home canning expert with Jarden Home Brands, the maker of Ball mason jars and other canning equipment. "Jams are simple because they utilize the best seasonal fruits to make a delicious, fresh recipe, without many steps, that can last all year. Pickles are also extremely popular. You can pickle a number of vegetables, not just cucumbers."
Jams and salsas are also considered easier because they are canned using the boiling water bath method, which is the most accessible way to start.
Boiling water bath canning is for high acid foods (most fruits, pickles, salsa, relish, dilly beans), and it uses inexpensive equipment, some of which you may already have around the house.
Pressure canning is used to preserve low-acid vegetables — typically vegetables you are preserving on their own, without any added acid like vinegar or lemon juice (anything not pickled) — and foods containing meat and dairy. A pressure canner can run $80 to $100.
"If you were just canning green beans by themselves, they would definitely have to go into a pressure canner," said Allison Carroll Duffy of Brunswick, a master food preserver and author of "Preserving with Pomona's Pectin" (Fair Winds Press, $21.99). "If you're making dilly beans, which has a lot of vinegar in it, they're considered high-acid and can be canned in a boiling water bath canner. So that's a key distinction, and it's a pretty important one for safety reasons, primarily because of the risk of botulism."
Start with fruits and vegetables that are in season, the experts say, and use a trusted recipe.
"Certain fruits you do need to add acid to, to make sure they are high enough acid, and also to make sure they gel properly," Duffy said. "So it is important to use a tested recipe, particularly when you're first starting out."
Kate McCarty, a master food preserver who teaches classes in food preservation for the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, agrees. She said people who take her classes are often surprised to learn that federal guidelines recommend adding bottled lemon juice to tomatoes to ensure they are safe for canning.
"Grandma's recipe is fine for a pie or something," McCarty said, "but when we're talking about food safety and the potentially lethal growth of bacteria, it's kind of a different game."
So what equipment do you need if you're making jam or salsa?
BOILING WATER BATH CANNER: This is the biggest piece of equipment you'll need. You can buy one cheap, or you can use a large stockpot you already have in the kitchen, as long as you have a rack to go into the bottom of it.
"If you have a lobster or a corn steamer, those can be re-purposed as a canner because they already have a rack in the bottom, and they're usually nice and deep," McCarty said.
Why is the rack so important?
"You need to have your jars elevated off the bottom of the pot because the water has to circulate fully around all the jars in order to process them properly," Duffy said. "And for the same reason, you can't have the jars touching each other, or touching the sides of the pot. They need to be covered with 1 to 2 inches of water at the top."
JAR LIFTER: This is just what it sounds like, a tong-like tool to lift the jars in and out of the boiling water.
CANNING FUNNEL: This is, essentially, a wide-mouth funnel that makes it easier to fill the canning jars.
HEADSPACE TOOL: The headspace is the distance between the top of the jam and the bottom of the lid on the canning jar.
"In processing, the air is getting forced out of the headspace," Duffy said. "Ideally all the air gets forced out of the headspace, and everything expands in the jar when that happens. So when the jar is cooled, things shrink again, but because the air's been forced out of the headspace, that's what creates the vacuum seal in the jar, which is essential to proper storage."
If you measure the headspace wrong, chances are the jar won't seal properly. If you don't have enough headspace, the food will seep out the sides of the jar. You can use a ruler instead of a headspace tool to measure, but the tool isn't expensive.
BUBBLE FREER: Just like it sounds, this tool will release any bubbles trapped in your jam. (Bubbles can crack the jar.) Sometimes the bubble freer is on the opposite end of the headspace tool.
MAGNETIC LID WAND: This is about the length of a chopstick, and on the end of the wand there is a little magnet. It's used to lift your jar lids out of simmering water.
MASON JARS: For jams, buy the half-pint size. A smaller, 4-ounce jar might be good for gifts, but for general use get the larger ones because most recipes are written for half-pint jars or smaller. Buy the Mason jar style with the dome lid and screw band.
"When you go to re-use those jars later, you'll need to buy new lids," Duffy said. "You can re-use your band, but you'll need new lids every time you can. That dome lid is important because that's where the vacuum seal is occurring. After you process your jars, that lid is going to be sucked down."
All of these tools can be found at your local hardware store or any store that carries canning supplies. You might also consider buying a beginner's kit, like the Ball Home Canning Discovery Kit. Some of these kits have more tools than you really need, but they are so inexpensive it doesn't really matter.
"You can buy the pieces separately, but this four-piece kit (from Ball) is less than $10, and you can find it at Hannaford and Shaw's," McCarty said. "That has the jar lifter and the funnel to help you fill the jars, and some other tools to make canning easier."
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Debra Kay Shepherd, 45, of rural Wabash, died at 3:30 a.m., Thursday, March 14, at her residence.
She was born July 28, 1967 in Wabash to Robert Garrett, Sr. and Linda (Lawson) Conley. She attended Christian Heritage Fellowship and graduated from Wabash Beauty College. She loved children and dogs and especially loved her family. She enjoyed primitive camping and swimming.
She is survived by her father and step-mother, Robert and Alane Garrett, Sr., Lagro; four sisters, Kim (Mitch) Little, Beverly Garrett, and Rachell (Larry) Honeycutt, all of Wabash, and Erica (Mark Teeter) Vance, Fort Wayne; her brother, Robert (Joy) Garrett, Jr. and her companion, Jeff Sexton, both of Wabash; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her mother, her sister, Lisa Wilson, a niece and a nephew.
Funeral services will be held at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Avenue, Wabash, on Tuesday, March 19, at 2 p.m. with Pastor Tim Prater officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery, Servia. Friends may call 1-2 p.m., Tuesday, March 19 at the funeral home.
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The Lewiston Lions Club is ending the year on a high note. Four new members - Fred Smith, Bob Hartz, Carol Sommer and Lisa Ieraci, pictured from left - were inducted during December's dinner meeting.
Lisa Ieraci 's husband, James, was inducted in November. All together, the Lions membership has grown to 34.
The club voted to donate $500 to Hurricane Sandy relief. In addition, Lions District 20N donated $50,000, while Lions International sent $100,000. An additional $100,000 in special grants was given to each state involved.
A portion of the Lions Club member dues supports international and district organizations.
Anyone wishing to donate to Sandy relief through the Lions can mail and make checks payable to the Lewiston Community Lions, PO Box 249, Lewiston, NY 14092. (Write "Sandy Relief Fund" in the memo). All monies go directly to those in need.


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News that the Chinese economy faces much uncertainty and that its lending rates are rising hurt U.S. stock markets on Monday. But Chinese stock markets and equities, of course, got hit as well.
The Shanghai Composite Index fell 5.3% with Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropping 2.2%.
The move to curb credit in China could threaten Chinese companies, "especially those in the private sector with weak credit quality, because it heightens the risk that banks will scale back lending to those companies," according to analysts at Moody's Investors Service.
U.S. investors holding China- and Asia-themed ETFs may want to pay attention to how the latest news in the region is affecting these products, given some of the discrepancies in their performance.
As for the major China-focused ETFs, the SPDR S&P China (GXC) was trading down nearly 2% on Monday, while the iShares MSCI China Index (MCHI) declined about 1.6%. Year to date, the SPDR ETF is off about 15%, and the MCHI is down 16%. For short-sellers, however, there's good news.
The ProShares UltraShort FTSE China 25 ETF (FXP) is having a nice run. It's trading up 4%, while the broader U.S. markets are off about 1%.
Year to date, the ProShares ETF has improved more than 40%. That's beating the performance of both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500, which have ticked up to the mid-teens so far in 2013, but more than 25%.
Its counterpart, the iShares FTSE China 25 Index ETF (FXI) is down roughly 16% since Jan.1, though it is up about 4% for the past 12 months.
The Guggenheim China Small Cap ETF (HAO) is performing much better than this index product for the past 12 months, when it rose 15%. It is, however, down about 7.5% so far in 2013.
In the nearby Hong Kong market, the iShares MSCI Hong Kong Index (EWH) has ticked up 17% in the past 12 months. It's down about 6% in year to date, however.
The iShares MSCI Taiwan Index (EWT) has declined about 6.5% year to date. For the past 12 months, though, it has improved roughly 17%.
In the mutual-fund world, the Fidelity China Region Fund (FHKCX) has moved up 20% for that past 12 months. It is flat year to date in 2013.
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Former Los Angeles Police Department officer Christopher Dorner -- the suspect in three killings that have targeted law enforcement and the subject of a continuing manhunt -- was suspected last week of fleeing to Mexico, according to a federal court document.
The criminal complaint filed in federal court on Feb. 7 charges Dorner with fleeing to avoid prosecution. It states that there was reason to believe he had crossed the border into Mexico.
An affidavit included in the complaint (pdf) was written by U.S. Marshals Service Inspector Craig McClusky the same day that the search for Dorner led to his burned out truck in the mountain resort of Big Bear.
On day five of the manhunt for Christopher Dorner, who is suspected of killing three people, the Riverside District Attorney filed charges against Dorner including one count of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted murder. The LAPD has assigned officers to protect 50 families the accused cop killer has threatened, and a $1 million reward is now being offered for information leading to Dorner's arrest. NBC's Miguel Almager reports.
McClusky recounted the Irvine Police Department's request for assistance from the U.S. Marshal Service in finding Dorner after he became a suspect in the Feb. 3 killing of Keith Lawrence and Monica Quan, who is the daughter of an LAPD official mentioned by Dorner is a manifesto that details his alleged revenge plot.
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McClusky described "the recent observations of a suspect matching Dorner's description attempting to flee to Mexico," and stated "there is probable cause to believe that Dorner has moved and traveled in interstate and foreign commerce from California to Mexico" to avoid prosecution.
The document also states that U.S. Marshals were tracking a Dorner associate identified only as "J.Y.," who had been spotted in Costa Mesa, Calif., near Irvine.
The search for Dorner continued in Big Bear on Monday, even as police followed multiple reports of sightings of the former officer that turned out to be false.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers check vehicles approaching the U.S.-Mexico border in San Ysidro on Saturday.
Also on Monday, the Riverside County District Attorney's office filed a charge of murder against Dorner in the shooting death of Officer Michael Crain, who was killed in what authorities have described as an ambush.
Crain was shot Thursday while he and his 27-year-old trainee partner were sitting at a traffic light near the Riverside Freeway.
"We felt the state of the evidence dictated there was no reason to withhold filing charges," Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach said. "He's a felon at large."
The LAPD on Sunday announced a $1 million reward in the case. More than 600 tips have been received, according to the department.
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Members of the driving force behind ESA's SMOS mission have been awarded the prestigious Certificate of Recognition by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society for their leadership in developing the first synthetic aperture microwave radiometer in space and for the success of the mission.
The Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society awards certificates of this kind only every two to three years, and only when a significant achievement is recognised by the society's Administrative Committee.
This sought-after award was presented to Yann Kerr from the French Center for the Study of the Biosphere from Space, Jordi Font from the Spanish Institute of Marine Sciences and ESA's Manuel Martin-Neira.
In orbit since 2009, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is using novel techniques to provide global maps of the moisture held in the top layers of soil and salt in the surface waters of the oceans.
This information is leading to a better understanding of the water cycle and, in particular, the exchange processes between Earth's surface and the atmosphere.
The original proposal for a mission to measure soil moisture and ocean salinity came from Dr Kerr. As Lead Investigator for the SMOS mission, he has been involved with the mission from its very conception in 1992. He is also responsible for ensuring that the mission meets the needs of the scientific community, in particular for soil moisture.
As Co-Lead Investigator, Dr Font has also played a fundamental role in ensuring the integrity of the mission is maintained for data on ocean salinity.
From the outset, it was clear to Dr Kerr that only passive microwave operating at L-band would provide the measurements needed by the scientific community.
Since a huge antenna would normally have been necessary to achieve the spatial resolution to observe soil moisture and ocean salinity in this band, the design of the instrumentation posed significant challenges.
The task of coming up with a system that would work fell to Dr Martin-Neira and his colleagues.
It took more than 10 years of research and development, but he overcame the problem by cleverly synthesising the antenna aperture through a multitude of small antennas.
The result was the innovative Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) instrument, which has been operating on the SMOS satellite since it was launched in 2009.
MIRAS captures snapshots of 'brightness temperature' that correspond to microwave radiation emitted from Earth's surface, which can then be related to values of soil moisture and ocean salinity.
At the award ceremony, which took place at the Museum of Anthropology of Vancouver, Canada, on 28 July at this year's International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Dr Kerr said, "I am very pleased and honoured to receive this award along with Manuel and Jordi.
"The success of SMOS is, of course, also down to the teams from ESA, CNES, industry and science who made it all possible.
"Now we are using the data to further our understanding of the water cycle and how Earth works and this is thanks to all those involved in this special mission."
Dr Martin-Neira added," On behalf of my colleagues Yann and Jordi, and all the people who have been involved in the instrument development and in the SMOS project, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society for the honour of this award."


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NYC, Long Island to ration gas to ease fuel crunch
NEW YORK (AP) — With long gas lines persisting more than a week after Superstorm Sandy, New York imposed a gasoline rationing plan Thursday that lets motorists fill up every other day.
Police will be at gas stations Friday morning to enforce the new system in New York City and on Long Island. Gas will be available to drivers with license-plate numbers ending in an odd number or a letter on Friday. On Saturday, drivers with license plates that end in even numbers or zero can fuel up.
"It'll be bad. How am I going to get my jobs done?" said Parris Hancock, a driver for a Manhattan catering company who makes deliveries from morning to night. "I'll have to get up at 4 a.m. and just keep going back for gas and waiting in long lines."
Officials said something had to be done to ease the long waits for fuel, which they say has caused panic-buying and hoarding.
"This is designed to let everybody have a fair chance, so the lines aren't too oppressive and that we can get through this," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
Bloomberg said the system worked well in New Jersey, where lines went from a two-hour wait to 45 minutes after Gov. Chris Christie announced a similar rationing plan.
"We have to do something," Bloomberg said. "This is practical and enforceable and a lot better than doing nothing."
Bloomberg said only a quarter of the city's gas stations were open. Some were closed because they were out of power, others because they can't get fuel from terminals and storage tanks that can't unload their cargoes. One station owner in Queens' Bayside section said the last time he had gas was three days ago.
"Whatever they can do to improve the situation, I'm in favor of," said yellow-cab driver Clee Walsh, as he drove into a BP station on West 36th Street only to discover that it had no gas.
The rationing plan takes effect at 5 a.m. Friday on Long Island, where hundreds of thousands of customers remain without power; and at 6 a.m. in New York City.
Buses, taxes and limousines, commercial vehicles and emergency vehicles are exempt from the plan, as are people carrying portable gas cans. Vanity plates that don't have numbers are considered odd-numbered plates. Out-of-state drivers are also subject to the system.
The mayor said the shortages could last another couple of weeks, worrying owners like Ash Gaied.
"It's more pressure on us," Gaied said. "They yell. They curse. You wouldn't believe it."
Gaied said one gas delivery lasts the station about seven hours, then he has to wait up to a full day for another one. He was answering a steady stream of phone calls at dusk Thursday from people running on empty.
"Yes, sir, we have gas," he told one caller. "No, I don't know how long the wait is."
Officials said the rationing would be across the region, including Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island, to avoid a rush across municipal lines for gas.
"It's important that we stay coordinated because we don't want one county's plan impacting on another county," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. "I'm not going to allow any one of them to do something that compromises a neighborhood because we're all neighbors."
New power outages on Long Island caused by this week's nor'easter again left stations with gasoline in their tanks unable to activate pumps. Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone said the rationing "will ease the challenges residents of the bi-county region are experiencing" after the storm.
Cuomo said he understands the panic, seen in lines blocks long for gas across New York City.
"The system is coming together slowly," he said.
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Missing Glacier National Park Hikers Found, Officials Say
"The men are doing well with no injuries," officials announce on park website.
Oct. 15, 2012 -- A pair of hikers missing since at least Friday have been found in Glacier National Park, apparently uninjured, officials said.
Neal Peckens, 32, of Virginia and his college friend, Jason Hiser, 32, of Maryland, were found today at approximately 3:30 p.m. MT after earlier searches for them were hampered by a weekend of challenging winter weather, according to a news release on the Glacier National Park website.
The two hikers were reported missing by their families on Friday after they did not board a scheduled flight home from Montana.
"The men are doing well with no injuries," the park said in announcing the men had been found. "They were flown out of the backcountry and met family members anxiously awaiting their return."
Additional information on the rescue will be provided Tuesday, officials said.
The friends, who met 10 years ago in veterinary school at Virginia Tech, are experienced hikers, Hiser's mother, Sandy, told ABCNews.com before learning the men had been found.
"They're both in very good physical condition," she said. "They're both intelligent young men, just lost. We're hoping for the best."
Park officials said the two men had a backcountry permit to hike the North Shore Trailhead at Two Medicine on Tuesday. Peckens and Hiser planned to camp overnight and return from the 17-mile loop on Wednesday, and then go on a day hike on Thursday.
Over the weekend, search crews had to battle wintery weather, including up to 18 inches of snow on trails, winds and snow drifts.
Aerial operations were also limited because of wind and low visibility, said Glacier National Park spokeswoman Denise Germann.
On Sunday, search personnel found a used fire ring and tracks that they believed may have been related to the hikers. The clues were found in Nyack Drainage, an area that contains dense and treacherous terrain, Germann said.
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Charles C. Fleek is Boone County's only Congressional Medal of Honor recipient.
Boone County Recorder 5 June 1969, page 1
Petersburg Soldier Vietnam Victim
Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Fleek, First Street, Petersburg, were notified last week that one of their sons, Sergeant Charls C. Fleek, 21, was killed in Vietnam.
Sergeant Fleek had attended Boone County High School and had worked at the Seagram Distillery, Lawrenceburg, Indiana before entering the service in January 1968. He was also an active member of the Petersburg Fire Department.
He arrived in Vietnam in July 1968 and in March was promoted to the rank of sergeant. His unit, the First Baitallon [sic] of the 17th Infantry Regiment, was scheduled for Hawaii three days after Sergeant Fleek was killed.
In February of this year, his father received a personal letter from Lt. Col. David S. Meredith, commanding office of the First Baitallon, praising Sergeant Fleek and a "dedicated, energenic and expert soldier."
Sergeant Fleek's decorations included Bronze and Silver Stars, two commendation medals and a Purple Heart.
His two brothers, Amaul Earl Fleek, 28, Dillsboro, Indiana and Wayne Fleek, 24, Petersburg, have both served in the armed forces. Wayne completed a tour with the Air Force in January.
Other survivors include a sister, Carla Tracy Fleek, at home, and his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rymer, Mt. Orab, Ohio. Bullock Funeral Home, Hebron, is in charge of the arrangements.


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Nature in Balance on the Galapagos Islands
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Published: January 27, 2013
Galapagos National Park is a group of volcanic islands on both sides of the Equator in the Pacific Ocean. Politically part of Ecuador, the Park is the second-largest biological marine reserve in the world after the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. It has achieved coveted status as one of UNESCO's premier World Heritage Sites due to the vast number of endemic species. Made famous by its contribution to Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution, the Galapagos is high on many travellers' bucket lists and it was certainly very high on mine.
I had delayed doing the trip for many years as I felt it was the kind of place that would be particularly interesting to see with teenagers. I was right. So, I bided my time until my earliest nieces and nephews grew from annoying (ages 1 to 8), to tolerable (ages 9 to 12), and finally to being engaging and interesting to me (ages 13 and beyond). It is also the age where my own quixotic eccentricity is most appealing to them. They are the only people in the world who think my non-traditional persona is actually "cool". All proper people think I am 'roll-their-eyes' crazy. Both are correct.
And so it was with little preparation beyond getting appropriate parental permissions that this single guy ended up gallivanting through Ecuador with two vivacious teenagers. We had a blast.
Connecting with Copa Airlines through Panama City is the best way, bar none, for Jamaicans to get to South America. The Panama Airport is so well constructed for connections that one can literally catch an outgoing flight with checked luggage in less than half-an-hour. Try doing that in Miami!
Our first few days were a stopover in the capital Quito. I wanted to check out the recently opened Casa Gangotena Hotel in the old colonial part of town. It had been getting rave reviews on the travel circuit for its understated elegance and superb service. Already top of Conde Naste Hot List 2012 and the number 1 Quito property on Trip Advisor, this refurbished mansion certainly lived up to the star billing. Marble floors and muted colour schemes blended with hand-painted murals and ceilings gave it grandeur. The attentive service and relaxed style of the staff gave it warmth.
Must-dos in Quito include a trip up to El Panecillo where a large 150-foot statue of the Virgin, as conceived as an Avenging Angel in the Book of Revelations, guards the city residents. Constructed carefully out of 7,000 pieces of aluminium, this Virgin of the Apocalypse stands on the globe as a dominatrix wielding her chains and stepping on a serpent-dragon beneath her feet. Poor Lucifer! He tricked the Mother of Man into eating of the Tree of Knowledge but ended his days crushed by the Mother of God.
Quito is known for its truly spectacular gilded baroque cathedrals. Best of these is the Jesuit Church of the Society of Jesus or La Compania. Constructed in the shape of a Latin Cross, the interiors are extravagantly decorated with gold leaf, gilded plaster and magnificent wood carvings.
Of course no visit to Quito is complete without a journey to the centre of the world, Latitude 0 degrees on the Equator where you can stand in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres at the same time. The magic of this moment comes more in the contemplation than in the actual doing. It certainly does not look any different at the "imaginary" line, but boy did it feel pretty spectacular.
After a few days of exploring the capital, we took off to join the National Geographic Endeavour Cruise to the Galapagos Islands. A relatively small ship by cruise standards, the Endeavour is built to accommodate only 96 passengers. There are no theatres, no malls, no casinos, no clubs, no mini-golf, no multifaceted restaurants, and no oversized swimming pool. As an expedition ship, the Endeavour is outfitted primarily with the tools for exploration like snorkelling gear, wetsuits, hydrophones, underwater cameras, video microscopes and Zodiac landing crafts. With more naturalists per guest than any other ship in the Galapagos, the intended star of this cruise is simply the abundant wildlife above and below the waves.
What's different about the creatures of the Galapagos is that they live largely without predators. They do not know fear. This means that visitors are able to get up close and personal either during a stroll on land or swimming in the ocean. We played with sea lions and swam next to giant turtles and sharks. We hiked right up to birds like finches, frigates and flamingos and they didn't fly away on our approach. We walked among hundreds of marine iguanas. We watched albatrosses mate. We saw booby birds give birth. We watched dolphins at their morning play. We walked the calderas (the rims) of still active volcanos and wondered in awe at the incredible tranquility and harmony of Nature without violence.
I think for the first time in our lives we felt ourselves a part of the grand cycle, not outside it. I was so happy to be able to share these experiences with my teenage niece and nephew. It was a once-in-a-lifetime trip that will linger in the memory forever.
To preserve the serenity of the ecosystem, the Ecuadorian government limits the number of visitors to the islands at any time. This means that you never see the hordes of tourists which you expect in other similarly world-famous sites. In fact, for most of our daily expeditions we only saw the other guests from our ship allowing us to commune with the animals alone.
Beyond the hiking on the islands and the snorkelling in the bays, there were several opportunities for kayaking, glass bottom boats, underwater filming and learning to drive the inflatable Zodiacs. The ship's Open Bridge policy meant that you could go hang with the captain at any time of day or night and learn about the navigational and operational functions of the vessel. I found this particularly memorable when I would awake at 5:00 am before my niece, nephew and most of the ship, I would go to the bridge and see the breaking dawn of these mysterious Galapagos Islands. As the mist broke over this miraculous place, the question arises: Is this Creation or Evolution? Battle lines have been drawn around this issue.
And yet to me the fight between the Evolutionists and Creationists has always seemed nonsensical. One is science and the other is poetry. Both are true. Why do they need to tell the same narrative? One can see both the hand of God and the intricacies of evolutionary biology. Was it all created in the blink of an eye or over several millennia? Who cares? It's magnificent! We are inheritors and therefore caretakers of Mother Nature's grand designs. May we guard it well!
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If you're a MobileMe user, Apple has managed to add some nice functionality to the service recently. However, you'll need the latest version of iPhone OS, Mac OS X, or the MobileMe Control Panel on Windows to take advantage of them.
Updating your iPhone (or iPod touch, for that matter) to iPhone OS 3.1 gives a couple added features to the "Find my iPhone" feature of MobileMe. When you send a message to the phone along with an alert sound, the sound will play at full volume, regardless of the ringer volume setting—handy if it has fallen under furniture or been stuffed in a lost and found box. You can also set a passcode lock remotely, in case you don't usually have one set, which could render the phone and its data useless to a thief. When enabling Find my iPhone, you'll also be warned that the feature doesn't work when Fetch New Data is set to Manual.
The update also enables syncing of subscribed calendars in iCal to a mobile device. Safari bookmarks can now be merged (instead of overwritten) when setting up a new MobileMe account. And finally, it resolves an issue when trying to upload images or movies to a MobileMe Gallery when the username has uppercase characters.
If you're on a Mac and update to Snow Leopard, you'll also gain a number of improvements to MobileMe. The data change threshold that will trigger an alert can be adjusted in the MobileMe preference pane, and the default threshold should reduce the frequency of data change alerts. A number of improvements are added to iDisk, including sync reliability, and option for automatic file version conflict resolution, QuickLook integration for checking file version conflicts, and a nice little UI tweak—the Sync menu extra will spin when syncing with an iDisk. Snow Leopard also enables Wake on Demand for Back to My Mac-enabled machines, and publishing movies directly from QuickTime Player to you MobileMe Gallery.
If you're a Windows user, you can update MobileMe Control Panel to version 1.5. Along with Windows 7 compatibility, the new version of the control panel lets you set your main MobileMe calendar to sync with the default calendar in Outlook. It also improves syncing of bookmarks between Internet Explorer and Safari. If you already use MobileMe Control Panel, Apple happily notes that upgrading to iTunes 9 will automatically update the version to 1.5. If you're not planning on doing that, though, Apple has instructions to manually install the update.


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I recently downloaded a whole mess of songs and they are awesome to jam too! They have gotten me through a few of my recent workouts and I love listening to them all the time, including while I get ready in the morning! They just get me so excited and in the mood to work out and get pumped up. So of course, I thought I'd share my recent finds with those who love some good rump shaking times. In the words of my boss, "Oh Sugar Puff!" He screamed that yesterday while changing the ink cartridge in the mail meter. Also, another CD to check out is the new Britney CD. I have listened to it a few times, but her songs take just a bit to grow on me, so I'm almost to the point where I like it. :) So I've linked all the songs to videos on Youtube, which per usual, once you venture onto youtube, you're on your own as to what you might find in each music video!
Forget you – Cee-Lo Green
Pumped up Kicks – Foster the People
Someone Else Calling You Baby – Luke Bryan
Don't You Wanna Stay – Jason Aldean Feat. Kelly Clarkson
Back Seat – New Boyz
Bow Chicka Wow Wow – Mike Posner
More – Usher
All of the Lights – Kanye West Feat. Rihanna (warning: the video is linked to photosensitive epilepsy)
Written in the Stars – Tinie Tempah
What the Hell – Avril Lavigne
F*ckin Perfect – Pink
Till the World Ends – Britney Spears
Hold it against me – Britney Spears
Bright Lights, Bigger City – Cee-Lo Green
Somebody to Love – Justin Bieber
Blow – Kesha
On the Floor – Jennifer Lopez
S&M – Rihanna (I know you have to have a youtube account to watch this or be over 18. ha ha)
No Sleep – Wiz Khalifa
Low Riding – Far-East Movement
Ghosts n Stuff – Deadmau5
The Show Goes On – Lupe Fiasco
So many good jams! So get out there this weekend and get your run on. I'll be in the gym and out putting in a few miles because next weekend, I'm going to try on wedding dresses. GAH


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November 27, 2012
Gardner Report, Oregon & Southwest Washington | third quarter 2012, Volume X IX
Posted in Market News by Matthew Gardner, Chief Economist, Windermere Real Estate
In the third quarter of 2012, the region sold 11,091 units of resale housing with the year-to-date figure of 30,485 units. The year-to-date figure was 13% higher than that seen in the same period of 2011, but sales slowed by 6% from Q2—likely a function of limited inventory for sale, a common theme across the whole of the United States.
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November 21, 2012
Thanksgiving: a Year in Reflection
Posted in Living by Tara Sharp
The past year has been an exciting one for all of us at Windermere. We have so much to be thankful for, not the least of which is the opportunity to help our clients with all of their buying and selling needs. We would love to hear about your greatest accomplishments in 2012 and how you express your gratitude.
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November 15, 2012
Damage Control: Preparing for Winter Storms
Posted in Living by Tara Sharp
Last week we shared tips for preventive home maintenance to help you and your home fare better through the winter months. This week we want to take this topic a bit further by focusing on disaster preparedness. No one wants to think about disasters, but being organized can help bring you and your family a peace of mind.
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November 12, 2012
Gardner Report, Western Washington | third quarter 2012, Volume X IX
Posted in Market News by Matthew Gardner, Chief Economist, Windermere Real Estate
Windermere Real Estate is proud to partner with Gardner Economics on this analysis of the Western Washington real estate market. This report is designed to offer insight into the realities of the housing market. Our goal is to provide an explanation of what the statistics mean and how they impact the Western Washington housing economy.
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November 09, 2012
Veterans, Thank You for Your Service
Posted in Community by Tara Sharp
To our Veterans, thank you for your service and dedication. We are proud to work alongside you.
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November 02, 2012
Preventive home maintenance
Posted in Living by Tara Sharp
It is storm season, and between British Columbia earthquakes, Hawaiian Island tsunamis and East Coast "Frankenstorms", it is time to take a few minutes to think about storm preparedness and making sure you and your home are as ready as possible for whatever nature throws your way this fall and winter.
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Huntington puts carp in pond to eat plants
Heckscher Park pond in Huntington has some new residents -- 36 of them to be exact.
Grass carp were introduced into the pond Monday in an effort to control the growth of hornwort, a thick, underwater sea plant the carp eat.
About three years ago, Heckscher Model Yacht Club members, whose boats are hampered by the plant while sailing on the pond, asked the town to consider a natural solution to the problem: stocking the pond with grass carp, a fish with a voracious appetite for hornwort.
After much consideration, the town agreed to the idea last year.
"We're happy to move forward on this," Town Supervisor Frank Petrone said. "Most of the innovative things that happen in government is a result of a need of an individual or a group of people."
The town got permits from the state Department of Environmental Conservation to introduce the fish. The DEC required the nonnative fish to be sterile and that a fence be installed so they don't spread to other areas.
As Ron Lange, club vice commodore, watched the fish being placed in the pond, he said, "We're hoping that the fish are aggressive enough and can really clean things up."
He said he and other members will chart the carps' progress each week.
Town officials said state regulations helped determine the amount of fish to be placed. They calculated 10 fish per acre for the 3.6-acre pond.
Babylon officials have said they have successfully used grass carp in their pond at Town Hall and at the town annex in North Babylon since September 2009.


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Originally posted on 6/17/2011. Updated 3/9/2013.
Released: 17 June 1983
Tracks: (Click for codes to singles charts.) 1. Synchronicity I 2. Walking in Your Footsteps 3. O My God 4. Mother 5. Miss Gradenko 6. Synchronicity II (7/16/83, #16 US, #17 UK, #9 AR) 7. Every Breath You Take (5/28/83, #1 US, #1 UK, #5 AC, #1 AR, sales: 1.0 m, air: 8.0 m) 8. King of Pain (7/9/83, #3 US, #17 UK, #1 AR, #33 AC) 9. Wrapped Around Your Finger (7/9/83, #8 US, #7 UK, #9 AR, #13 AC, air: 1.0 m) 10. Tea in the Sahara 11. Murder by Numbers
Sales (in millions): 8.0 US, 0.3 UK, 16.5 world (includes US and UK)
Peak: 117 US, 12 UK
Review: June 17, 1983: The Police released Synchronicity. In The Review's 2001 feature on "The 100 Greatest Albums of All Time", Clarke Speicher called it "the most compelling work of [their] career and one of the signature albums of the '80s." Amazon.com's Al Massa calls it "a benchmark album from a tremendously influential band [that] will stand the test of time as a genuine classic."
The album was loosely built around Carl Jung's synchronicity concept which suggested an interconnectedness amongst seemingly non-related occurrences. The only songs to expressly reference this idea are "Synchronicity I" and "Synchronicity II." The latter was a top 20 single in the U.S. and U.K. and lyrically told an odd story of suburban life in juxtaposition with the Loch Ness monster creeping from its lake.
However, the songs were loosely tied by their thematic lyrics. As Rolling Stone's Stephen Holden said, "paranoia, cynicism and excruciating loneliness run rampant" throughout. Ironically, such an agenda didn't slow the album's success. The first single, "Every Breath You Take", was a dark tale of a stalker which has often been misinterpreted as a love song. It was #1 for 8 weeks in the U.S. and rates in the top 10 in the book The Top 100 Songs of the Rock Era, 1954-1999.
Every Breath You Take
Wrapped Around Your Finger
Of course, the album was far from peaceful and the band was not at peace either. The tension of their working relationship in the studio and a lengthy world tour drove wedges between them. Sting would venture out for a solo career and an attempt to reunite in 1986 was short-lived.
Resources and Related Links:
- The DMDB page for the Synchronicity album
- The Police's entry in the DMDB music makers' encyclopedia
- The DMDB page for Sting & the Police


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10 DIY Food-Themed Halloween Costumes
All of these costumes are cheap, pretty throw-it-togetherable, and will make other people around you hungry.
1. Food Mascots
- Sun Maid Raisin Girl: A bonnet, white blouse, head scarf, and basket full of grapes. (Bonus points for sunshine rays emanating from your body)
- Morton Salt Girl: Wear a yellow dress (preferably with a huge bow) and hold an umbrella. (Fun fact: that would be our own Serious Green columnist Tressa Eaton in the photo!)
- Jolly Green Giant: Green shirt, green leaf-bearing toga, and green headband. Act jolly.
- Chiquita Banana Lady: A woven hat full of fruits piled on top, big hoop earrings, and a poofy dress.
2. Deviled Egg
Most ladies probably have a devil horns headband and tail lying around from a previous devil costume. Multiply that by a white blob with yellow center—ta-da, everyone's favorite finger food.
Get two pieces of white poster board, cut two large ovals (of the same size), and color in a yellow yolk on one. Punch two holes at the top of each egg and string yarn through the holes, connecting them so they sit on your shoulders. Or you can always use a white sheet instead of poster board, and cut it into a poncho shape.
3. Trader Joe/Josephina
Because dressing up as a cashier from any other grocery store just wouldn't be as cool. Wear a Hawaiian shirt, lei, and name tag (include your hometown).
4. Sriracha Tube
This requires super advanced puffy paint skills. Get a red shirt and white puffy paint squirter from your local crafts store and, with a Sriracha bottle nearby, recreate the rooster design and "HUY FONG FOODS, INC." labeling underneath. Find a green hat; wear it.
5. Gummy Worm
Basically just wear one shade on top and one on the bottom for that classic duotone gummy worm look. Squiggle around with awful posture all night.
6. Fruit Tree
Wear brown pants and a green long sleeve shirt. Pick up some artificial fruits at a crafts store or 99-cent type place and wrap them around your arms and torso haphazardly.
7. Bag of Jelly Bellys
Blow up a bunch of multi-colored balloons, but not too huge. Take a dry cleaners bag and cut two leg holes at the top (the hanger side). Step into the bag and fill it with balloons. Punch out two arm holes and tie the top around your neck with a big bow.
8. California Raisin
Take an extra-large black trash bag (if they start making a purple version, opt for that), hold it upside-down and cut a hole towards the top for your face. Put the bag over your body (please do not suffocate) and poke holes for your arms. Wear big sunglasses, white gloves, high-top Converse, and pants of some sort. Toy saxophones are also encouraged.
9. Top Chef-testant
Wear a white lab coat and try to bring up topics like olive oil-poached halibut and turnip foam as much as possible. For a creepier twist, pick a specific person from this season's Top Chef Las Vegas.
10. Chipotle Burrito
How often do you get to use an entire box of aluminum foil at once?! Exactly. Just wrap yourself up until you're covered and look like approximately 1,000 calories.
Best Food-Inspired Halloween Costumes
Photo of the Day: Rice Krispie Treat Costumed Kitty
Video: Martha Stewart With Babies In Food-Inspired Halloween Costumes
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The Pacific Cycling Centre in Victoria, BC, will be holding a pre-season training camp on March 21-25. Led by Master Coach Houshang Amiri, the camp is open to all cyclists and triathletes, who will find out what they need to know about how to build a 2012 season foundation and fitness base. They will also have a unique opportunity to train and work with an Olympic coach and Olympic athletes, including Erinne Willock.
The training camp will focus on an individual's needs helping them to identify training targets and build towards goals for the season. Training will cover building base aerobic and endurance, techniques, core stability/endurance, flexibility and balance. There will be five group rides aiming to develop or improve base endurance and boost aerobic capacity. In addition there will be a dynamic indoor gym session and evening presentations by Amiri.
During the camp, participants will get direct feedback on strength, core stability and endurance, as well as flexibility, and receive full support and supervision during the training ride and sessions. "Winning is the result of preparation, and an athlete's preparation starts right here at training camp," says Amiri.
The deadline to apply is February 10, 2012.
For more information, schedule and cost go to: www.pacificcyclingcentre.ca
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?Independent Sales Representative?BigIron Auction Company?Turn Your Agriculture Interest into a Prosperous CareerUse your passion for agriculture to create your own success by becoming an Independent Sales Representative (ISR) with BigIron Auction Company. As an Independent Sales Representative, you will participate in BigIron?s proven sales program – a tremendous opportunity for you to generate significant income.?Within your own exclusive and assigned territory, you will establish relationships with local businesses and individuals – farmers, ranchers, and more – and help them sell equipment safely and efficiently via BigIron?s full-service online auction site.?Are You Built for a Role with BigIron?BigIron?s top Independent Sales Representatives often have common qualities that aid their success. Get a sense of where you stand with BigIron?s best by answering the following questions:Do you have agriculture or sales experience?Do you already have strong professional relationships in your community?Are you outgoing with strong verbal skills?Are you an organized self-starter, hungry for success?Are you willing to go above and beyond expectations for a customer??Independent Sales Representatives truly create their own opportunities by providing quality in everything they do. How well you fulfill the expectations and responsibilities of an ISR will determine how quickly your business will grow:Spread awareness and reach out to prospective customers to educate on BigIron?s premier auction serviceCreate quality equipment listings for your sellers that meet or exceed BigIron?s standardsBe available and attentive to your seller throughout the auction processCollaborate and communicate effectively with BigIron?s staffMarket listed equipment locallySet sales goals to ensure your future success?We?re Invested in Your SuccessAt BigIron, you will be working for yourself – but not by yourself. Which means, you?ll have access to the resources you need to ensure your productivity and success:A 9-week onboarding program, providing you the support you need to hit the ground runningThe support of sales managers who are committed to your growth with BigIronAccess to our risk assurance team to ensure your customers are handled with careBigIron?s accounting and collections team relieves both you and your sellers from the hassle of chasing checks and paymentsA network of other Independent Sales Representatives to share winning sales strategiesMarketing team and tools will help ensure your sellers? equipment is receiving the very best exposure?Additional BigIron AdvantagesAdditional exclusive benefits you?ll receive as an independent sales representative include:The highest commissions in the industryUnlimited income potential, with our 100% commission structureLow overhead to get startedContinuing in-house education?What do you need to get started?Laptop (or Desktop Computer)TransportationSmartphoneTabletAn initial $500 start-up cost, which covers your local marketing launch, the sales starter kit, and the 9-week training program.Apply for this job.


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1. Jets running back LaDainian Tomlinson mused about retirement last week and if his comments this week about the team's organization are any indication, he is either headed for retirement or to another team for the 2012 season. Tomlinson let loose on the team's dysfunction, suggesting the team's chemistry was as bad as he had ever seen, that he doubted quarterback Mark Sanchez and wide receiver Santonio Hollmes could coexist, that Holmes needed to work on being a leader and that while he liked playing for head coach Rex Ryan, he wished the combative coach would tone down his style. Having used 4th round picks in each of the last two drafts on running backs (Joe McKnight and Bilal Powell), don't look for LT back in a Jets uniform in 2012.
2. Having witnessed left tackle Doug Free struggle mightily to protect quarterback Tony Romo's blindside in 2011, reports indicate the Cowboys are considering moving Free to right tackle. Rookie 1st round pick Tyron Smith played that position this season but Dallas head coach Jason Garrett may want to move Smith to left tackle, given his superior athleticism.
3. With the Packers loss this week to the Giants, the top seed in the NFC has now lost their first playoff game in four of the past five seasons. This trend follows a string of 17 years in which the top seed in the conference won their first playoff game.
4. Giants wide receiver Hakeem Nicks has been dominant in his team's wins over the Falcons and Packers, reminding fans of the superlative performance that Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald had in his team's run to the Super Bowl during the 2008 season. Having topped 100 receiving yards and scoring twice in each game, Nicks becomes just the third player since the Super Bowl has been awarded to accomplish that feat, joining Fitzgerald and Jerry Rice.
5. Sticking with the Giants and their situation at wide receiver, Nicks' performance has made a mockery of numerous fantasy pundits and NFL writers who spent the week prior to the wild card round claiming that the Giants had two number one wide receivers and debating the merits of which player would have a superior season in 2012. While Victor Cruz had an amazing season (setting a Giants record for most receiving yards with 1536, good enough for third in the league, there is little doubt that he benefitted playing alongside Nicks, who often drew coverage away from him. In addition, while Nicks played in 15 games this season, he was banged up regularly and was as healthy as he has been all year when the playoffs opened.
6. Looks like karma is working in favor of disposed Rams head coach Steve Spagnuolo. While Spagnuolo enjoyed little success in St. Louis, compiling a 10-38 record in three seasons, he was a solid defensive coach who attempted to build the team's roster based on his four pillars: faith, character, core values and team first. With Jeff Fisher taking over for Spagnuolo and the hiring of Gregg Williams to lead the team's defense, a vacancy at defensive coordinator in New Orleans was created. Spagnuolo will fill that role in 2012. Interestingly, the only truly solid performance the Rams put together this past season came in a 31-21 upset win over the Saints, a game in which they produced two turnovers and six sacks in limiting the Saints to just 283 total yards.
7. Looking forward to the conference championship games this weekend, one key stat to remember is that the Ravens are 7-0 against playoff teams thus far in 2011.


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Pacific Southwest, Region 9
Serving: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Pacific Islands, Tribal Nations
I-710 Corridor Initiative-
Progress Toward Abandoned Gas Stations Cleanup
- I-710 Corridor
Initiative - Home
- Café Camellia
- M-Star Gas
- Target Service
Los Angeles
- Iglesia Cristiana
Los Angeles
- Eagle Industries
Long Beach
- Thunderbolt
Long Beach
In December 2010, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 and the California Environmental Protection Agency's State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) launched the Underground Storage Tank (UST) Cleanup Partnership in the Interstate 710 (I-710) Corridor. The purpose of the Partnership is to:
- Accelerate the cleanup of abandoned gas station sites;
- Better prevent contamination at active gas station facilities; and
- Remove barriers to neighborhood revitalization efforts.
The I-710 Freeway bisects Los Angeles County, from the City of Long Beach in the South through the City of East Los Angeles in the North. Many of the areas within this transportation corridor include low-income and under-served communities. The I-710 Corridor is a priority area for EPA and is part of the Agency's larger effort to integrate environmental justice principles into its programs across the country.
Targeted Brownfields Assessment Program Sites
UST Cleanup Partnership:
I-710 Corridor
Los Angeles County, California
July 2012
City of Bellflower
Cafe Camellia, (Industrial Area)
City of Compton
M-Star Gas Station, (Commerical Area)
City of Long Beach
Eagle Industries (Former Industrial Area)
Thunderbolt Engineering
(Between Residential and Industrial Areas)
City of Los Angeles
Former Target Service Station
(Retail/Residential Area)
Iglesia Cristiana El Remanente Fiel
(Retail/Commerical Area)
U.S. EPA's Targeted Brownfields Assessment
I-710 Corridor Focus Area
The Partnership built an inventory of dozens of abandoned gas station sites within the I-710 Corridor that were vacant or had limited uses. Many sites required further environmental assessment before tank removal or cleanup activities could be conducted. Seven (7) sites were selected based on recommendations from the respective partner cities and an identified strong potential for redevelopment of the properties. EPA's Targeted Brownfields Assessment (TBA) Program was used to complete the needed site assessment phase of the work. All seven sites are located in areas of need—in Bellflower, Compton, Los Angeles, and Long Beach—where the cities are focusing their redevelopment efforts. In addition to paving the road toward cleanup and development, the TBA Program helped identify potential threats to human health in the communities.
EPA Brownfields Program & Partner Agencies
The Brownfields Program is designed to promote multi-agency and local stakeholder cooperation to assess, clean up, and redevelop Brownfield sites. Grants funding and other assistance, including the TBA Program, is available within EPA Region 9. The selection and assessment of the TBA sites in the I-710 Corridor was accomplished with collaborative efforts of the property owners and the following partner agencies:
- Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (LARWQCB)
- Los Angeles County Department of Public Works (LACDPW)
- City of Bellflower
- City of Compton
- City of Long Beach
- City of Los Angeles
Additional Resources for Abandoned Gas Station Assessment and Cleanup:
- Office of Underground Storage Tank's Petroleum Brownfields site
- Federal LUST Trust Fund
- Targeted Investigation (TSI) Program Application
- CA State Cleanup Fund
- CA State Cleanup Fund Sub Account: Emergency, Abandoned, Recalcitrant (EAR) Account
- CA State Cleanup Fund Sub Account: Orphan Site Cleanup Fund (OSCF)
You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view some of the files on this page. See EPA's PDF page to learn more.


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BOSTON — Be sure to HONK! when you see 13-year old Blaine Stevens of Rye, NH in Boston Children's Theatre's (BCT) hilarious family musical HONK! Blaine plays the role of the gossipy hen 'Maureen' in the production that runs February 9-24 at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts.
Recently featured as the niece of Kevin James' character in the hit film Here Comes the Boom, Blaine can also be seen in the television public service announcement for Kids for Global Peace. On the New York stage, she appeared in Turtle Shell Theatre's production of The Nickname Fairy and has been numerous BCT productions including James and the Giant Peach, Footloose The Musical, Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse and The Wedding Singer. An eighth grader at Berwick Academy, Blaine has been seen in such school productions as Aladdin and You're A Good Man Charlie Brown. She has also worked with Seacoast Repertory Theatre in Winnie the Pooh, 101 Dalmations, Peter Pan and School House Rock.
Written by George Stiles and Anthony Drew, HONK! received the prestigious Olivier Award, Britain's equivalent of the Tony Award. Based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling, this entertaining family musical tells the story of a young bird named 'Ugly' whose unusual and awkward appearance triggers prejudice and ridicule among his family and friends. Join 'Ugly' on his journey as he meets some very interesting characters and discovers not only his true inner beauty and destiny but also finds love and acceptance along the way.
According to BCT Executive Artistic Director Burgess Clark, HONK! is a perfect fit for the theater's 61st season. "This year our productions are extremely diverse- from HONK! to Reflections of a Rock Lobster to Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible No Good Very Bad Day- yet the common themes of tolerance and acceptance are underscored in each of the shows. It truly demonstrates how creative and adaptable theater can be and how entertaining at the same time," said Clark. "We are also thrilled to work with director/choreographer Larry Sousa who will be a master at bringing this wonderful show to our BCT stage."
Directing and choreographing for the first time with BCT, Larry Sousa's credits include the upcoming Broadway production of Merry Go Round, as well as many productions with Pasadena Playhouse, Garry Marshall's Falcon Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Utah Musical Theatre, Hangar Theatre and many more. An award-winning choreographer, Sousa has worked locally with SpeakEasy Stage Company and Reagle Players and he is currently on the faculty at the Boston Conservatory.
HONK! will be performed at the Roberts Studio Theatre at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., on Feb. 9, 10, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24. All performances are at 2 p.m. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at www.bostonchildrenstheatre.org or calling 617-424-6634, x222.


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BALTIMORE (WBFF/CNN) - Police in Maryland are investigating a possible incident of child abuse at an elementary school involving a substitute teacher acting inappropriately with a fourth grade class.
Laura Glover says her 10-year-old daughter was in that classroom of fourth graders Tuesday when school officials say the female substitute teacher was removed from class because of "inappropriate behavior" with students.
"She supposedly kissed a child or two. She was bouncing up and down on their laps...basically a lap dance," Glover said.
She says the teacher also included asking her daughter and other children to identify body parts.
Police are not releasing details, but say they learned of the incident when another parent drove to a precinct to file a police report.
Glover says the substitute grabbed her daughter when the child refused to move her chair.
"She proceeded to tickle her and grabbed her from underneath her armpits and she dug her nails under, into my daughter's arm pits," she said.
In a statement, the school says they "will not tolerate any inappropriate behavior by staff" and that "an investigation is ongoing."
Baltimore County Schools says the woman has been removed from the system's pool of substitute teachers.
Copyright 2020 WBFF via CNN. All rights reserved.


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The Outsiders
This story appears in the December 1998 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Being the son, daughter or other relative of a family business's leader can be a real dilemma when you're 20-something and eager to prove your worth to the family--but also want to be friends with your co-workers. You're still young enough that the business's future doesn't likely rest on your shoulders, and if you've joined the company straight out of high school or college, you're probably very interested in building friendships with the people you spend your days with.
But like it or not, unless you change your identity and your last name, you'll never be one of the gang. You can buddy up to your work pals during the day and go out with them for a drink at night, rationalizing it as team-building, says Paul Karofsky, executive director of Northeastern University's Center for Family Business in Boston, but that's not what's really happening.
People are always aware of who you are--and as someone who may own the business someday, you're different. "You probably have more money--and definitely more clout--than your peers," says Dennis Jaffe, family business consultant and management professor at Saybrook Graduate School.
When you speak, people listen--even though you don't always speak for the family or the business. "And you're immediately thought of as rotten or spoiled, even if you aren't," says Mike Spiewak, 47, CEO of Spiewak & Sons, a New York City manufacturer of uniforms and outerwear. He was put in an awkward position--as the owner's son--when he came into his father's business in 1973. Now he's trying to advise his 24-year-old nephew, Aaron, about how to walk the precarious line between being a caretaker to the company and being a friendly, respected co-worker.
Patricia Schiff Estess writes family business histories and is the author of two books, Managing Alternative Work Arrangements (Crisp Publishing) and Money Advice for Your Successful Remarriage (Betterway Press).
Great Expectations
Young family members likely have expectations that are different from those of their co-workers. "It's an internal desire for things to be right because this is `your' business--even if you're not a stockholder," says Karofsky.
Consider the case of a young woman who was a customer service representative for her father's business and good friends with one of the company's hot-shot salespeople. Over time, she noticed her friend's sloppy paperwork was causing repeated customer complaints. She complained about it to her supervisor, who did nothing, so she went to the salesperson's supervisor, who also did nothing. Then she turned to her father, who raised holy hell. Problem solved? Not quite. The whole incident exploded in her face because although she was simply trying to resolve a bad situation for the company, she wound up alienating the salesperson, his boss and her boss. "She fulfilled everyone's negative expectations of her [by going to her father]," observes Karofsky.
There's another problem with becoming buddies with other people in the company who are your age, says Jaffe. "People latch on to individuals they know will be moving up in a company--because they know that helps their own careers," he says. "As the heir or a powerful force in a family business, that's you. So my question to 20- or 30-somethings would be, `Are people gathering around you because they smell power or are they really your friends?' " That's a difficult question to answer.
In addition, if you become too close to your work buddies, "You can't engage in one form of camaraderie: making fun of or criticizing your boss," says Aaron Spiewack. If you do, family members will lose respect for you, and co-workers will become suspect.
So how do you handle the dual position?
*Be friendly but acknowledge the differences. While you may work closely with others who have the same job title you do (for the time being), you can't get away from the fact that you have a different status. Jaffe highlights that with a story: "When I was being shown around Hallmark Cards some years ago, the guide pointed out a young man from a sea of people. `That's young man Hall,' the guide said. `He's going to run the company someday.' "
- Anticipate what will happen. Your credibility as one of the future leaders of the business is at stake--and it's established early on in your business career. Talk to your family about possible conflicts of interest, how best to represent the owners and family both at work and outside of work, and how you might handle some hypothetical sticky situations, like fielding employee gripes.
- Hone your leadership techniques early on. Co-workers know you have power that extends beyond your title--especially when it comes to channeling suggestions and complaints. "Rather than rush to use the power, work through established channels and ask the complaining or suggesting employee how he or she proposes [the situation] be handled," suggests Karofsky.
- Find a trusted mentor. "For safe venting, find a confidante," Karofsky suggests. It's best if the person is not related to you. You need to be able to talk to someone who is wise, a good listener, and a person who has no vested interest in the company.
- Build friendships outside the company. While you can and should build good relationships among the people you work with, says Jaffe, "It's essential that you have an independent group of friends that's not connected to the family business."
As much as you might like to be part of the gang at work, says Jaffe, understand that as a future leader in your family's business, you have to maintain your own credibility, set an example, and be the model for the values your family holds sacred. Like it or not, that's the reality of life in a family business.
Contact Source
Spiewak & Sons, (212) 695-1620, http://www.spiewak.com


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